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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2769693, member: 57495&quot;]This is just my speculation, but I don&#039;t see Dattari spending very much of his time attempting to clean and conserve his coins.&nbsp; Perhaps some of his sources did.&nbsp; He was a prodigious collector of not just coins (13000+ catalogued provincial coins of Alexandria, 19000+ other Romans, and more) but art as well.&nbsp; He acquired much of it within a decade, and if anything he probably spent the time studying and cataloguing rather than cleaning. </p><p><br /></p><p>As an unrelated aside, David Vagi in his book repeats a story about Dattari sending &quot;thousands&quot; of Alexandrian tetradrachms of Nero to the melting pot because they were so common and undesirable that they were worth more to him for their bullion value <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie100" alt=":wideyed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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